184
Active artists across 31 countries
Label Services · For artists at 50K–2M monthly listeners
Label-grade A&R. Independent terms.
A 22-person human A&R team responds to every demo in four business days. You keep your masters. You get paid weekly. You release across 220+ stores in 41 territories within 24 hours. And you work with the same label-services playbook that produced 11 platinum certifications and four Grammy nominations in the last six years.
The case for label services
For artists ready to be developed, not just distributed.
Pure distribution gets your music into stores. A major-label deal asks for your masters, your publishing, and often your direction. Label services sit in the middle: you keep ownership, retain creative control, and bring on a team whose job is to develop the record with you — not just collect a fee for uploading it.
Altitude Music’s label-services roster is built for independent artists who have already proven demand at the 50K–2M monthly listener tier and are ready for the next stage. You get a dedicated A&R, a release plan with real marketing spend behind it, an advance against future royalties, sync pitching across an 18,000-track pre-cleared library, and weekly payouts with full per-stream, per-store, per-territory transparency. The catalog has now passed 2.1 billion lifetime streams and shipped 11 platinum certifications in six years — but no single deal guarantees outcomes, and we will not promise chart positions or specific royalty numbers.
If that is the partnership you are looking for, the next step is a four-minute demo submission.
What label services actually covers
Four deliverables. One dedicated team.
Label services is not a bundle of buzzwords. Each engagement includes four concrete workstreams, owned by named Altitude staff, measured against timelines you can see.
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A&R development
A dedicated A&R from our 22-person team is assigned at signature and stays on the project across the full campaign — song selection, sequencing, vocal direction, and the difficult cuts. Average first response on a submitted demo is four business days.
- A&R team
- 22 full-time
- First response
- ≤ 4 business days
- Active roster
- 184 artists
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Marketing & release strategy
A release plan built around the record’s actual audience: paid social, DSP pitching, press, radio, and a paid media budget managed in-house. Editorial pitching to Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube Music is handled by the same team that handled 612 albums and 4,180 singles released in 2024.
- 2024 releases
- 612 albums / 4,180 singles
- Catalog streams
- 2.1B+ lifetime
- Countries
- 31 on roster
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Advance structure
Recoupable advances against future royalties, sized to the campaign and recoverable against a transparent split. Masters remain with you in full — no buyouts, no reversion clauses. Publishing splits are negotiated per deal and disclosed in writing before signature; Altitude never claims ownership of your copyrights.
- Master ownership
- 100% artist
- Payout cycle
- 6.4 days avg.
- Cadence
- Weekly payouts
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Sync pitching
Tracks are pitched into Altitude’s opt-in sync library of 18,000+ pre-cleared songs, searchable by mood, BPM, and key, and worked by a team of nine in-house specialists. Historical placement rate is roughly 1 in 17 submitted tracks — 340+ placements in 2024 across Netflix, Apple TV+, Riot Games, and Adidas — but placements are not part of any standard deal and cannot be promised.
- Sync library
- 18,000+ tracks
- 2024 placements
- 340+ across film, TV & brand
- Specialists
- 9 in-house
The Altitude Process
From demo to release in weeks, not quarters.
A transparent four-step path built around human A&R and 24-hour release infrastructure. No black boxes, no six-month evaluation loops.
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Submit your demo
Send one link — a private SoundCloud, Dropbox demo, or streaming-only rough. No full master required. The submission lands directly in A&R's queue within minutes.
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A&R call & split proposal
A 30-minute conversation with the A&R who listened. You get a written terms sheet before any signature — splits, advance structure, marketing scope, and timeline — line by line.
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Production & campaign build
In-house mix engineers, mastering, visual identity, DSP pitching, and a release-week marketing plan drafted by your A&R plus our distribution lead. You see every line item.
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Release & royalty dashboard
Delivery to 220+ stores across 41 territories within 24 hours. Weekly payouts land in your account with full per-stream, per-store, per-territory transparency. You keep 100% of your masters.
By the Numbers
The roster, in numbers.
2.1B
Lifetime streams across Spotify, Apple Music & YouTube Music
11×
Platinum certifications across the active roster since 2018
6.4d
Average artist payout cycle — stream accrual to bank account
4
days from demo submission to first A&R response
340+
sync placements in 2024 (Netflix, Apple TV+, Riot Games, Adidas)
24h
release turnaround across 220+ stores in 41 territories
22
full-time human A&Rs on staff
Billboard "Indie Labels to Watch" (2022, 2024) · Music Business Worldwide "Independent Label of the Year" (2023) · $14M Series A led by Peloton Partners (2023)
Who We Work With
Built for artists who are already moving.
Altitude's label services are tuned for a specific stage of momentum. If that's you, we'll move fast. If it isn't, we'll point you somewhere better.
A strong fit
Independent artists at 50K–2M monthly listeners
You have an existing audience, a steady release cadence, and a catalog that proves you can keep listeners coming back. You need major-league reach without giving up your masters or your split. Our 22-person A&R team, weekly payout dashboard, and $14M-backed infrastructure exist for exactly this tier.
- Weekly, transparent royalty payouts across every store and territory
- 100% master ownership — no buyouts, no reversion clauses
- Dedicated A&R plus access to in-house Dolby Atmos mix suites
- Opt-in sync library placement across 18,000+ pre-cleared tracks
Adjacent — also welcome
Songwriters, producers & emerging artists with momentum
Co-pitch partners seeking a sync-forward catalog, producers who want their beats pitched alongside named writers, and emerging artists with a viral single and a story to build from. We take these on selectively — and our A&R will tell you on the call if a pure distribution deal through our parent offering is the cleaner fit.
- Songwriters: co-pitch support into our sync catalog
- Producers: split-friendly deal structures, master splits negotiable
- Emerging artists: case-by-case, evaluated on trajectory not just streams
